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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 18, 1882

Loyalty and Lawbreaking

Look out for the man who prates loudly of his loyalty. That ancient Utah saint and persistent law-breaker, Daniel H. Wells, one of “The Twelve,” the most pronounced polygamist of them all, commander of the Mormon militia and general hater of Gentiles, in the Constitutional Convention at Salt Lake last Saturday declared that “it made his blood boil when men insinuated that he proposed to make a fight outside the lines of the glorious old Constitution of the United States, the folds of whose grand and all-protecting flag he almost worshiped, and whose power and principles he adored. No man on the footstool of God’s earth was more loyal than he; no man that walked loved his country as he did.” Now, ye patriots, hide your diminished heads.—Record-Union.